Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. As companies grappled with growing and achieving global scale, the organizations became larger. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I consider her the best in the biz for transportation management consulting. At the time, we were both deployed as consultants for Manugistics to help a manufacturing company to implement end-to-end planning. Ellen’s was to design and execute the transportation planning logic. Manugistics is now owned by JDA.).

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

The untethered exuberance reminds me of the race for Y2K, the futile experimentation with trading exchanges in 2001, or the race for e-commerce. Supply chain excellence definitions evolve as companies explore the Art of the Possible. Manufacturers and retailers are bundling goods and services to drive solutions. Digital Mania.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies talk about customer-centric supply chains, but most leaders are more comfortable in the world of supply than demand. While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. It does not.

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 21, 2021

The ability to execute and deliver value to multiple customers in the consumer goods and manufacturing industries has proven to be a success. Both companies have experienced consultants in the supply chain planning area and the delivery team is expected to grow more than threefold to accommodate the high demand in China. About vTradEx.

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 16, 2020

With this partnership, :o9 introduces its market leading cloud platform to manufacturers and retailers in China across many different industries, including consumer goods, electronics, fashion apparel, industrial manufacturers, semiconductor, and retail, among others. “We Our strategic partnership with o9 was an organic fit.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. The Early Days: 1956-1960s.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It was designed with linearity in mind: a singular focus on minimizing transport costs through building high-capacity, point-to-point distribution infrastructure. Transformation was a great process to move a company forward five years ago. ” Second, climate change is having an impact. Yet cooperation will be key.”

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

For over a century, we have seen increasing automation in supply chain, especially in manufacturing and the pace has quickened in the past decade with robotization in production, warehousing, and transport. System Complexity The interconnectivity of elements within a system as well as between a system and its environment (Chan, 2001).

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USC Consulting Group

MAY 16, 2023

Back then, we were Universal Scheduling Company, communicating with clients over mimeograph and analyzing their schedules. Over the years, we expanded into other industries like mining & metals, food & beverage, life sciences, transportation & logistics and more. Our reach opened up to serve companies all around the globe.

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 25, 2013

According to Lummas et al 2001 , the word "Logistics" in English appeared in the article as early as in 1898. Muller explained in a very comprehensive manner about how "movement" of each type of soldiers should be done which included marching, transportation, wheeling, advancing, formation, transport of heavy guns, how to cross the river etc.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In 2001 the government of Aragón in northern Spain realized that its economy had become overly reliant on a small group of industries, notably auto manufacturing. This exchange of resources can yield significant cost and service benefits for companies in the cluster. Logistics clusters are self-reinforcing.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Our LTL company has regained its footing,” Stotlar continued. the parent company of Con-way Freight. “I He joined Con-way Freight in August 2008 from sister company Menlo Worldwide Logistics. Before joining Menlo in 2001, he held logistics and operations management positions with Delphi Automotive Systems and Penske Logistics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. At this size, there were few possible suitors for the company. SAP and several other companies passed on the opportunity.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

We dug that company out of terrible financial difficulty after the “internet bubble” burst in 2001. As it worked out, I had colleagues from 4 of my companies at the recognition event. I cover all the major industry categories from food to high tech to industrial manufacturing and healthcare. It was fun!

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 15, 2015

speed, simplicity and predictability of formalities) by border control agencies, including customs; Quality of trade and transport related infrastructure (e.g., transport operators, customs brokers); Ability to track and trace consignments; Timeliness of shipments in reaching destination within the scheduled or expected delivery time.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 30, 2015

Editor’s Note: As an older Millennial who landed in Transportation Management & Logistics marketing, our target audience are manufacturers who ship freight. I figured, we pepper in some tips on transportation management, but if we also offer value to manufacturers, they would turn to us as the experts.

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KEPLER Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

After all, companies need to minimize and monitor the most harmful supply chain management practices. This can only be achieved by addressing the elimination of the worst practices in the organization, processes, and digital resources of the company. Exhaust-data analyses (OTD, pallet volume, transport, suppliers, returns, etc.)

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Precoro

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Tasked with acquiring the high-quality goods at the right time to meet company needs. Procurement is a set of processes related to acquiring goods and services to satisfy a company’s needs. Thus, it enables procurement and helps ensure the availability of necessary goods and services for a company. Procurement. Tired of reading?

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Gravity and Spire are collaborating to offer an enhanced level of information gathering for companies, governments, and organizations with the ability to plug in real-time data about upstream supply-chain realities. This enhanced visibility of vessels for those awaiting their arrival enables managers to make better, data-driven decisions.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Average warehouse capacity utilization among manufacturers is about 68%. This marked the 34th consecutive quarter of positive net absorption, the longest streak since 2001. Vacancy rates in key transportation hubs and seaport cities were even lower,” according to a report from JOC.com. in Q1 2017, the lowest since 2008.”

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

Just-in-time techniques have led to more products arriving directly from manufacturing to the end-customer, shrinking warehouse use. Transport optimisation considerations dictate that warehousing is used at the end-point of a transport system to amass enough products for a full load for the subsequent transport system.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 22, 2016

At any particular time, the manufacturer focuses on making slight improvements in the product: shaving off a few dollars in cost, improving quality a bit, adding a couple of new designs, etc. These improvements often determine whether a manufacturer is competitive with its rivals across town or across the globe.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

company’s peanut plant in New Mexico. This action occurred after the company sold salmonella-tainted organic peanut butter that was used in hundreds of food products for perhaps as long as two years. Perhaps that is because these companies were using either paper-based or only partially automated systems.

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E2open

OCTOBER 22, 2018

E2open and INTTRA will join efforts to strengthen the connections and streamline the information flow between manufacturers, suppliers, shipping service providers, ocean carriers and all the participants in global trade. Today, one out of every four ocean containers shipped globally is booked through the INTTRA platform.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 7, 2022

In a prior Supply Chain Matters blog commentary, we highlighted that commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus has made plans to once again rapidly ramp-up monthly production levels for the company’s popular Airbus A320 single aisle aircraft family. FAA sign-off on added engineering, manufacturing and quality process fixes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 7, 2020

In 2014, I accepted to support the World Economic Forum in developing the supply chain and transport industries. Since 2010, I have been supporting startups, like Hyperloop Transportation Technologies as well as asset owners – including serving on various boards. The main push comes from manufacturers and brands.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 1, 2015

Supply chain in China was once an afterthought or was only thought of in terms of the ‘Make’ and ‘Ship’ processes included in manufacturing in China. Back in 2001, China was just revving its engine, a $1.3 But as China becomes not only the factory of the world but the ‘Mall of the world’ this can no longer be true.

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Requis

JULY 8, 2020

Transportation is still heavily dependant on fossil fuels. Oil and gas companies as a whole are changing too. Energy companies know they need to diversify beyond fossil fuels. Operators are already finding more ways to work more efficiently and more sustainably, and are better companies for it. Leaner and greener.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 26, 2019

3PL (third-party logistics) providers deliver outsourced distribution and fulfillment activities to companies that want to supplement or lack the resources to handle these functions in-house. Companies also outsource to 3PLs to benefit from the expertise 3PLs have built into their distribution and fulfillment infrastructure.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2019

While all supply chain leaders are interested in the topic of building value networks, only a few companies are actively investing in building data architectures to enable the extended supply chain. People come and go in the group based on company dynamics. When I was a Gartner analyst in 2001, there were over 120 B2b platforms.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

When I travel from company to company and discuss the future of business processes, the term “digital” is ubiquitous. I liken it to the ecommerce frenzy of 2001. Public markets reward growth, and the average growth for companies for the period of 2011-2016 was 1/3 the rate of growth for the period of 1986-2007.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

manufacturing decline. Mexico’s manufacturing sector is integrated with U.S. For example, 40 percent of the inputs to finished manufactured goods in Mexico come from the United States. Since their inclusion in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 (at the beginning of a decade of precipitous decline in U.S.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Manufacturing in Portugal. It also manufactures wood and cork products, paper and pulp, chemicals, fuels, lubricants, automobiles and parts, base metals, minerals, porcelain and ceramics, glassware, technology and telecommunications equipment, dairy products, wine, ships, plastics and optics. . state of Virginia.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 18, 2016

On July 1, 2016, the Institute for Supply Management announced the manufacturing index rose to 53.2 GDP, which holds major hopes for the future of manufacturing. manufacturers into beliefs of an impending recession. manufacturers into beliefs of an impending recession. Current Facts on Manufacturing in the US.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 24, 2017

However, that age has been replaced as analytics capabilities , and Big Data sharing enabled cross-company optimization and refinement of processes. Although the trend was most noted during the campaigns, manufacturers were already looking at how its benefits could outweigh its investment costs. shippers will only climb from here.

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